Boss ME-50 question

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I'm a trumpet player and use lots of electronics w/ my avant-garde trio. I just purchased this unit (to replace a Digitech RP-200) and love the sound quality and easy functionality of it. But I have one question. I need to be able to play lines in major seconds for some of our stuff. The Digitech allows you to dial any interval in an octave, a half step at a time. It appears at first glance that the Boss won't let me do this--it looks like I'm stuck w/ preset intervals (minor third, fourth, fifth, etc).

Is this really the case? Kind of a bummer if so--why not just let you select the interval you want, instead of trying to "help" you? It's like digital cameras that think they're smarter than you...

thanks for any advice on this.

Oh, and if that IS the case, are there simple pedals that only harmonize, and that allow you to select the interval you want?

scott

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I don't know of a single pedal out there that does what you want and I don't think you can set the ME-50 that that way, I have the Boss GT-8 and in order to get the "intelligent" harmonies you have to key in the key your playing in and then you can tinker with intervals an all that jazz. The ME-50 has the depth/harmony, rate/key knob, hopefully you can get it close enough with that. I'm not a big fan myself of simulated harmonies. I find they sound like me when as a learning teenager guessing notes.
 
hey dumby, thanks for the reply. One thing though: I'm not trying to play a simulated harmony or in any key--I'm just trying to get a constant major second going for a certain sound, improvised lines in a song w/ no key. In other words, no attempt to have standard harmony. Or another way to say it--I want a quasi-"unison" feel but w/ the voices a whole step apart.

I guess I'll have to hook the digitech up in the chain just to play this one piece!
 
they make harmonizer pedals. My friend has one. I can't remember what the name or brand of it is though. But they DO make them! They are a little pricey though. Around 200 I beleive
 
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if you want to hear a major second above or below what you play on every note, the me-50 can do that perfectly. it's really easy actually, and works well. Don't forget the me-50 emulates the harmony pedal the previous poster was talking about... it's included in the me-50. You can also choose an interval using the wah pedal on the board, and with it you can do any pitch, not necessarily in-tune pitches, which gives lots of freedom if you want it. Otherwise you can choose the exact pitch as well.

For me the pitch shifting and mixing tricks in the me-50 is one of it's best implemented features compared to something like the digitech whammy - similar features, better implementation.

Don
 
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